skate in. the rest of us have to go home because eugene has upstage us all. congratulations of the further review. you re all separately great friends of mine and i love that this has come together so beautifully. we will be watching tomorrow and every weekend. congratulations and i will see while later. thank you. have a good night, ali. good morning to all of. u.s. saturday the 13th. i m ali velshi. we are two days away now from the iowa republican caucuses. the first in the nation khamenei to contest that kicks off the 2024 election season. caucuses, as you may know, originally from that old school political tradition that demands that participants physically attend the meeting in order to participate. caucus goers have to sign in, they report to the respective precincts on monday night. beginning at seven pm, local time, representatives for each candidate to brief speeches in each case caucus candidate for choice in a secret ballot. there s no early voting, ther
speeches in each precinct before the caucus goers vote for their candidate of choice. in a secret ballot. no early voting. no absentee voting. no veil in voting in this instance. the process can take a little while, but this, year could be the coldest iowa caucus ever. current forecast for monday night include record sub-zero temperatures, which, of course, could affect turnout. at this point, a force of nature might be the only thing that could prevent donald trump from winning the state. the latest poll of iowa conducted by suffolk university earlier this month shows the former president leading the pack with 54% of likely republican caucus goers saying they plan to support him. his closest rival, nikki haley, is 34 points behind. a 20%. if these numbers hold, trump has the opportunity to smash the record for the largest margin of victory in iowa gop history for a non incumbents. that s a record currently held by bob dole, who won the 1988 caucuses by 13 points. over pat ro